[asterisk-users] Question about Do Not Disturb

[Haim Dimer]

Hello,

Some of my users have phones lacking a DND button. I need to provide  
an extension they can dial that will put them in DND, i.e. tell the  
server not to send them any calls until they get off the DND.

I've researched it for almost 3 days now and tried a range of  
configurations. I'm hoping somebody here has an answer. Currently, I  
have this in extensions.conf

[app-dnd-on]
exten => *78,1,Answer
exten => *78,n,NoOp(${CALLERID(num)} channel ${CHANNEL} is going on  
DND ACTIVE)
exten => *78,n,Set(DB(DND/${CALLERID(num)})=On)
exten => *78,n,UserEvent(ASTDB|Family: DND^Channel: ${CHANNEL} ^Value:  
On)
exten => *78,n,Playback(do-not-disturb&activated)
exten => *78,n,Hangup

[app-dnd-off]
exten => *79,1,Answer
exten => *79,n,NoOp(${CALLERID(num)} is going OFF DND)
exten => *79,n,DBdel(DND/${CALLERID(num)})
exten => *79,n,UserEvent(ASTDB|Family: DND^Channel: ${CHANNEL} ^Value:  
^)
exten => *79,n,Playback(do-not-disturb&de-activated)
exten => *79,n,Hangup

Using the above config, if I dial *78 I hear Allison's voice telling  
me that do not disturb is activated but I can still be called (either  
directly or as part of a queue). BTW, there are many people on the  
wiki stuck with the same problem : http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page_id=787&tk=c7f21c26a40ee72393d7&comments_page=1

About the system:

bell*CLI> core show version
Asterisk 1.4.23.1 built by root @ bell on a i686 running Linux on  
2009-01-26 01:57:36 UTC

GUI-version : SVN-branch-2.0-r4489 (It's the Digium GUI)

Thanks!

Haim.